154 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. sea-side 



tuse, serrate, thickrsb, hirsute,' with smaller leaves in the axils of the larger. Flowers 

 few, axillary, among the terminating leaves, small, white, or blue ; border of the co- 

 rolla almost equal, four-cleft, upper segment a little wider, almost upright, spreading, 

 einarginate, the "two side ones and,the- lower segment equal, roundish, enure, con- 

 vex; capsule oblong acuminate, seeds roundish minute^ S&, This plant is very, com- 

 mon b> the sea side in. all the southern. parts of Jamaica, and has a pleasant aromatic 

 smell and bitterish. taste, and is probably an excellent stomachic and aperitive. This 

 leaves are pretty thick upon the branches, and slightly beset with down. Browne. 

 Germander, or water germander, called scordium, hath a small fibrous root, and a 

 rough four-squa.re stalk, lying spreading on the ground, three or four feet long, send- 

 ing out leaves two and two of a side, opposite to one another, oolo:i, and without any 

 foot -stalk, jagged about the edges, hoary, of a rank smell, an! somewhat clammy ; 

 the flowers are blue,; and foiir-leuved ; after which come black cornered s< eds. It is a 

 specific or counter-poiscvn against infectious, contagious, or epidemic distempers. It 

 is good against the strangury, and provokes the terms. Yon may take the juice, infu- 

 sion, decoction, or essence, which takes away the gnawing pains of the stomach, sid s, 

 or pit ura. Infused i.) restringent wine, it i> good against fluxes. The powder is given 

 from half a drachm to a drachm, in its distilled water or syrup, to facilitate labour j it 

 opens obstructions and kills worms Barham p. 6't. 



Sea~Side Grape See Bay-Grape. _ 



SEA-SIDE LAUREL. XYLOPHYLLA. 



Cl. 5, or. 3. Triandria fri/ri/ira. Nat. on. Tricocca, 



Cl. 3, or. 1. Polygamia iiwuaria. Swartz. 



This generic- name is derived from two Greek words, signifying wood and a leaf. 



Gex. char Calyx a five or six parted perianth ; no corolla; nectary six glands at 

 the base of the germ, or a rim surrounding the germ ; stamens five very short fila- 

 ments, (Gartner sa^s three to six) ; anthers shorter than the flower, biggish ; tne 

 pistil has a roundish germ ; three short styles-; stigmas jagged or bifid ; the peri- 

 carp is a roundish three-celled capsule ; seeds two in each cell. This genus, of 

 which four species are natives of Jamaica, differs from phyUaulhus only ln^ having 

 the flowers from the notches of the leaf. 



1. LATIFOLIA. BROAD-LEAVED. 



Lonchitidi affihis arbor anomala folio, alalo c pinnarum crniis frttcti- 

 Jero. Sloanc, v. I, p. CO. Foliis latioribus, utrinque ocuminatit 

 apicim versus crenatis, ad.crenasjlvridis. Browne, p. 188 



Leaves pinnate, broad- lanceolate, crepate, flowers peduncled, thrcc-stamenetl, 

 monoecious. 



Stem shrubby, one or two feet high ; branches irregular, roun lish, compressed ; 

 leaves distich, alternate, scarcely petioled, erenate towards the end, smooth on hoih 

 tides, siifhsh. Flowers clustered, pcduncled, polygamous, hermaphrodite and i< - 

 male mixed ; females always terminating, longer, pedicel led ; calyx in hotli sorts si x- 

 puriud, coloured, pcrmaucuu Iruthe hermaphrodites six, very^ou fijameats, uith 



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